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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the October 8, 2024 publication of

Boxed Juice by Danielle Chapman Boxed Juice is a rare and original work that makes clear why Danielle Chapman is so vital to contemporary poetry. Spontaneous and indelible, enchanting and disillusioned, extravagant and direct, these poems reveal what Chapman sees from within roles that our culture often renders invisible or ridiculous — mother, caregiver, Christian mystic, literary wife. From the taut, linguistically nimble stanzas of “Unspeakable” and “Kumquat” to the devastating and funny lyric essay at the book’s center, Chapman invokes constraints even as she exuberantly shatters them. Yet, as acclaimed poet and critic Peter Campion notes in his foreword, “for all its elegance, this remains a work pitched against despair, an act of survival.” Chapman and her husband, Christian Wiman, had been married for only 10 months when, in 2005, he was diagnosed with a rare, incurable form of lymphoma, an event that ignited the couple’s mutual thirst for God, and their quest for poems that could capture it. Chapman’s work witnesses that harrowing story even as it maps a vision forward, stubbornly relishing the mischief and the joy, the ecstasy and absurdity — and, above all, the sound — of life, even when threatened by catastrophe. Following Delinquent Palaces (TriQuarterly, 2015), Boxed Juice distills Chapman’s craft into a miracle of resilience. Danielle Chapman’s poems are those of a spirit in whom the experience of being crushed is saved by the music that it yields.

Danielle Chapman is a poet, nonfiction writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots, was released by Unbound Edition Press in 2023.

Her previous collection of poems is Delinquent Palaces (Northwestern University Press, 2015).

She currently teaches Shakespeare and creative writing and lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their twin daughters, Fiona and Eliza.

Photograph by Vienna Hinkson

Praise for Boxed Juice “Chapman’s poems feel so vital, so genuine ... [they] are strikingly precise, their beautiful deployments of image and perception powerfully constrained ... all the more intoxicating for their confinement.”

Adroit “On some days, the only song worth singing is one of how to love well.

Here, Chapman gives you that in a musically rich abundance that could be called Auden or Funkadelic: you can live these lines.”

Reginald Dwayne Betts “Boxed Juice is something rare, an original vision of being … that makes Danielle Chapman so important to poetry right now.

Peter Campion, from the Foreword

Boxed Juice | Danielle Chapman | $25.00 U.S.A. | 979-8-9870199-4-8 (fine softcover) | 5" x 7.5" | 112 pages Unbound Edition Press | Distributed by Itasca Books | orders@itascabooks.com Available through Ingram. ARCs and more information on Edelweiss+

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the April 29, 2025 publication of

Again by Charles Douthat In Again, Charles Douthat charts a profound journey through love, loss, and the complicated grace of survival. Moving from childhood’s luminous moments to the raw territories of grief, these elegies for his parents and sister transform personal sorrow into a larger meditation on how family shapes and haunts us: “They were gone for good. They light my way.” With remarkable tenderness, Douthat explores the ways we carry those we’ve lost, finding in memory not just pain but also unexpected mercy. From California beach towns to New England woodlands, these poems remind us that even our deepest wounds can open into moments of startling beauty and revelation.

Charles Douthat is a poet, retired litigator, and visual artist. Born and educated in California, he practiced law for many years in New Haven and began writing poems during a long mid-life illness.

His first collection, Blue for Oceans, received the PEN New England Award, as the best book of poetry published that year by a New England writer. J. D. McClatchy called it “a wise and haunted book.” Douthat lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his wife, the artist Julie Leff.

Praise for Again

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This is the book of poetry one prays for, rarely gets.

This is a book impossible not to love.

Alan Shapiro Charles Douthat mines a deep vein of the meditative lyric that runs adjacent to the later poems of Wallace Stevens … reaching in his final section a profound opening-out both of style and vista.

David Baker Elegiac, edged with humor and grace, Again offers a sweeping vista of a California where … family dead speak again through memory.

Tyler Mills

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the April 29, 2025 publication of

Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City by Angie Estes A dedication to the transformative power of language itself defines Estes’ Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City. These poems excavate Baudelairean correspondences — secret relations in the world of things — reveling in the ways that etymology uncovers the ancient life of language, even as the play and slippages of language access alternative modes of being.

In his poem “A Song on the End of the World,” Czeslaw Milosz evokes an apocalypse that is grounded in the quotidian and intimate: “There will be no other end of the world.” Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City enacts this intimate apocalypse as two women forge a “Song of the End of the World” that looks both backward and defiantly, improbably, forward.

Language in this work becomes a way of moving across, questioning time and culture. Somewhere between seduction and annihilation, between Pavlov and Pavlova (as one poem puts it), at the end of days, of light, what are the words we would want to speak?

ngie Estes is the author A of seven books of poems.

Among her many honors are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Prize for Lesbian Poetry, the FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her book Tryst was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. She has received fellowships from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Praise for Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City

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Willard Spiegelman

E stes is at the height of her power: erudite and intimate, playful and musical … this may be my favorite of her books.

Kevin Prufer Angie Estes’ poems sing life most gloriously … This beautiful collection, filled with wonders, exhilarates.

Claire Messud Angie Estes achieves a vast poetic range and resonance … She’s one of the best poets of her generation.

Mark Irwin No one writing poetry today manages to unite intellect and sensuousness so deftly as Estes does.

Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City | Angie Estes | $25.00 U.S.A. | 979-8-9906141-7-8 (fine softcover) 6" x 9" | 88 pages | Unbound Edition Press | Distributed by Itasca Books | orders@itascabooks.com Available through Ingram. ARCs and more information on Edelweiss+

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Animals Out-There W-i-l-d by Raymond Luczak “a magical book that works its spells in musical silence.”

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R aymond Luczak is the author and editor of over 30 books, including the poetry collections Chlorophyll, Lunafly, and Far from Atlantis; once upon a twin was selected as a Top Ten U.P. Notable Book of the Year for 2021.

His prose titles include A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life and the award-winning Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands. His most recent anthologies as editor are Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Oh Yeah: A Bear Poetry Anthology. A proud Yooper native and an inaugural Zoeglossia Poetry Fellow, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In this groundbreaking collection of sign language gloss poetry, the first of its kind to be published, Raymond Luczak explores the dynamics of written English poetry and ASL gloss by communing with the animals living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Having lost much of his hearing at the age of nine months, Luczak was not allowed to use sign language until he was 14 years old, when he demanded to learn it.

In the mining town of Ironwood, Michigan, Luczak felt isolated among his hearing peers at school and his family members at the dinner table. More at home in the woods, he discovered a place both wild and welcoming, with no need to guess at meaning through lipreading. Sensing a kinship with the array of animals there, he believed they understood him in ways the hearing world could not. Knowing Deaf people had historically and wrongly been outcast as languageless and wild, Luczak reclaims the woods as a source for his own natural language and sense of belonging.

As a Deaf writer giving English poetry readings in American Sign Language (ASL), Luczak faced the challenge of performing his work in ASL, so he developed his own system of notating ASL gloss on the page. It is this deeply personal, interior language that Luczak uses to animate this moving collection, making his poems legible — knowable, accessible — across communities too often separated by a lack of knowledge.

Praise for Animals Out-There-W-i-l-d This gorgeous collection is a testament to the power of poetry, transcending barriers and fostering understanding between worlds.

Ellen Lord, author of Relative Sanity: Poems [Luczak’s] genius, though, is to evoke … the infinite languages of creation, through which every living being, including each of us, contributes to nature’s conversation.

Jonathan Johnson, author of May Is an Island … a beautiful ballet between the creative properties of related languages.

Eric Thomas Norris, author of Astronomy for Beginners … a feat of leaping language, a delightful and surprising conversation between English and the American Sign Language gloss that Luczak has created …

Ching-In Chen, author of recombinant

Animals Out-There-W-i-l-d | Raymond Luczak | $25.00 U.S.A. | 979-8-9892333-9-7 (fine softcover) | 5" x 7.5" | 134 pages Unbound Edition Press | Distributed by Itasca Books | orders@itascabooks.com Available through Ingram. ARCs and more information on Edelweiss+

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the October 12, 2021 publication of

We Prefer the Damned by Carlo Matos “… powerful, frank, and moving … a haunting music.”

Scott Edward Anderson

We Prefer the Damned Carlo Matos We cannot help but gasp at the price tag on new love and new loss finely drawn together and yet [somehow] we manage to arrive a little shocked and surprised to be there failing to remember who we forgot to be or how to reduce a double negative.

arlo Matos is a bisexualC plus author who has published ten books, including The Quitters and It’s Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in such journals as Hobart, DMQ Review, and PANK, among others.

He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago, and a former MMA fighter.

Photograph by Sean Murphy

We Prefer the Damned, the 11th book from Carlo Matos, features poems exploring bisexual relationships, erasure, and denial. Matos, equally celebrated for his fiction, poetry, and prose-poetry, pushes toward a new grammar for intersectional identities as the poems in We Prefer the Damned weave his Portuguese-American heritage and bi+ lived experience.

Through language turned and punctuated in fresh ways, Matos finds the structures and syntax to embrace past and present, old self and new self.

His toughness as a former MMA fighter turns to the finessed strength of rigorous self-examination with these poems. The collection embraces the true complexities of the bi+/pan/poly experience, particularly false accusations of not being Queer enough or, simultaneously, of being too sexual and incapable of monogamy. These poems also trace the boundaries where such issues interact with a working-class, child-of-immigrants upbringing, in which the very words for describing bisexuality did not exist.

With We Prefer the Damned, Carlo Matos creates that missing language.

Praise for We Prefer the Damned In a relentless searching of self, We Prefer the Damned mines both the harsh and the tender. This collection is both the digging and the earth.

Michael Torres, Author of An Incomplete List of Names In We Prefer the Damned, Carlo Matos explores his bi+(-furcated) world: straddled between two worlds, two choices, two sexes, between denial and desire, between enlightenment and solace. Matos shares what it is like to be “between the old world and the new halfway between places we don’t belong to.” This is a powerful, frank, and moving collection of poems where, as Matos writes, “even a major chord can sound like dissonance” and, yet, can still make for a haunting music.

Scott Edward Anderson, Author of Azorean Suite / Suite Açoriana These are unsparing love poems with a fierce fighter’s joy at their core.

PaulA Neves, Author of capricornucopia (the dream of the goats)

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the September 5, 2023 publication of Jesse Nathan

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In this debut collection, Jesse Nathan matches an exquisite feeling for the music of lines and sentences with his profound explorations of the idea of home. The book’s title comes from the word for a bit of cartilage on a baby bird’s beak, a growth that helps it break out of the egg. Shortly after the bird hatches, the tooth disappears. Like an eggtooth, Nathan’s poems are often figures for birth, for the violence of birth and, in his case, rebirth. They follow an unusual and passionate boy from his childhood on a wheat farm in the watershed of the Running Turkey Creek in rural southcentral Kansas — “the land was always the solace” — to his life years later in a coastal city.

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Jesse Nathan was raised in northern California and rural Kansas. He teaches literature at UC Berkeley, and he was a founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The New Republic. This is his first book.

Photograph by Brett Hall Jones

Ecology, family, history, sexuality, and poetry itself are his subjects, but in all these matters, Nathan’s rich formal imagination travels our fundamental feelings of alienation and belonging. In a style somehow both lavish and plainspoken, in free verse and inherited forms, Eggtooth takes us from straw-bale fortresses in the hayloft, from fishing in streams and days so hot the “blank road shimmers” as the heat drives you out of your “straw-frail” mind, to the respite and loneliness of a far-off city plaza, to the “waves in their folding” at the edge where an ocean comes “boiling” onto sand. With verbal precision and abiding sympathy, Nathan’s poems announce a capacious and deeply compelling new voice in American letters.

Praise for Eggtooth Jesse Nathan’s Eggtooth is an ambitious, brilliant rethinking of what making a poem is.

Again and again the author makes us feel that we have been present at the creation.

Frank Bidart Here is the Gerard Manley Hopkins of the 21st-century ...

Major Jackson One of the newborn wonders of the world ...

Katie Ford Here poetry is a pleasure, a thrill, an homage.

Fady Joudah I love the poems in Eggtooth ... I love the way they make me see anew.

Linda Gregerson I can’t think of another writer who so clearly sees the land for what it is: the actual organ from which we emerge and whose fate is directly linked to our own ...

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

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“… elegant, understated, finely wrought.”

Ellen Bass

Without a Field Guide Nicole Robinson

Announcing the May 9, 2023 publication of

Without a Field Guide by Nicole Robinson Nicole Robinson’s debut collection, Without a Field Guide, combines lyric intensity with narrative sweep. This poet attends to the bare reality of trauma and its aftermath, the challenge of navigating life “without a field guide / to identify who I am or where I’m flying.” But if these poems focus on an individual healing process, they also surprise with their wide variety of subjects

Body of the great blue heron, mostly grey, body of morning, body to hold the torrent of water and still land, body with gravity and flight, and who doesn’t love

and tones, as with their depiction of a contemporary America marked by “reactionary blisters” as well as subtle beauties. At the center of the collection

a contradiction? Body of neck, length of a snake, body

lies this poet’s unsentimental yet deeply joyful regard for the natural world

with a dagger for a bill and barrel for torso. What do we hold

that she portrays with vivid originality. Immersing herself and her reader in

in our chests? Blood and an exhale we can’t let go, memory and muscle, a whole body of breath. Heron’s got a body of hollow bones. What lives inside that space?

Nicole Robinson’s poems have appeared in Columbia Journal, The Fourth River, Great River Review, The Louisville Review, Spillway, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere.

She is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award for poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and the Humanities Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Currently serving as the narrative medicine coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital, she resides in Ohio.

this ecology, Robinson ultimately returns to the human world with a new, hard-won tenderness.

Praise for Without a Field Guide … elegant, understated, finely wrought. Nicole Robinson explores trauma with a stunningly deft touch and enormous heart.

Ellen Bass, Author of Indigo There is a spine of light which runs through this book …

Dorianne Laux, Author of Only as the Day is Long In the tradition of Wordsworth and Rachel Carson, Whitman and Mary Oliver, these poems sing of the natural world …

Joseph Millar, Author of Dark Harvest: New and Selected Poems … what leads the heart back is the singing of Robinson’s voice …

Kate Northrop, Author of Homewrecker

Photograph by Mark J. Edwards

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the April 29, 2025 publication of

Groom by Austin Segrest In Groom, Austin Segrest confronts the intricate architecture of memory and power, examining how formative relationships shape and alter us. Through a masterful sequence that moves between past and present, these poems map the complicated territory where mentorship blurs into manipulation, where desire tangles with control. With striking clarity and remarkable formal precision, Segrest explores how we process and survive what shapes us, transforming a difficult personal history into art that reveals that “someone has heard.”

Austin Segrest is the author of Door to Remain, winner of the 2021 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award.

Originally from Alabama, he lives in Appleton, Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University. His poetry appears in Poetry Magazine, VQR, The Common, The Yale Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and other journals.

He was a 2018—19 poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Praise for Groom

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Groom’s spare, sharp, whip-smart language lights up, like coals in a clamshell, an intricate abyss of need and trust and betrayal.

I am enamored of Groom for its brilliance, its discernment, its broken, golden and tenderly reconstructed heart.

Mark Wunderlich This astonishing and honest collection from Austin Segrest … brings into our hands a chance to go back on all we thought was right …

Paul Tran Austin Segrest’s Groom captures an age, a place, and a time with stunning clarity. It is a transformational mapping of the boundless private … These poems are essential reading.

Rita Mae Reese

V. Penelope Pelizzon

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these contemporary concrete mazes, Shapiro explores issues of fragmenting cultures and

between personal spaces, between individuals and communities.

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lifestyles, immense economic inequity, perpetual digital interactions, and rapidly escalating

train tracks, across intersections — that Shapiro finds his place,

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Wells Shapiro, “Buzzing means you are not alone.”

Alex Wells Shapiro (he/ him) is a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Frontier Poetry and Another Chicago Magazine, where he also serves as business and grants manager. He is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His work has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Word For/Word, The Under Review, Filling Station, and Sharkpack, among other respected literary journals..

Praise for Insect Architecture

Formally attuned and linguistically inventive, Alex Wells Shapiro’s Insect Architecture is the coronation of a vision all its own.

J. Howard Rosier, National Book Critics Circle Shapiro paints poems, like collages, with range and yet the precision of a photographic memory.

Jose Hernandez Diaz, Author of The Fire Eater ... a poet who grips us tight before letting us go.

Natasha Mijares, Author of violent wave

Photograph by Tuan H. Bui

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the April 30, 2024 publication of

Near-Earth Object by John Shoptaw

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“Shoptaw shows us the beauty we’ve inherited and the battered ruins we’re leaving.”

In the poems of Near-Earth Object, John Shoptaw explores the interactions, sometimes

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dark and sometimes joyful, between humans and the non-human natural world. Resisting the human exceptionalism that in its many forms blocks our imaginative access to

Foreword by Jenny Odell

the world, Shoptaw entertains the perspectives of a host of others: a cricket, a bat, a nuthatch, a carnival bear, a tree’s shade, cherubim, an asteroid, and — in the long poem “Whoa!” (an allegory of climate change based on the myth of Phaethon) — Earth herself.

His descriptions bring to bear knowledge drawn from many sources (life and physical sciences, poetry, philosophy, conversations) as well as his own attentive experience of

I’ll never know your canopy up close, like those hummingbirds thrilling mates with their iridescent plummets or plucking

the world (birds at the feeder, creek-side fox squirrels, Pacific harbor seals). Along with

creamy lichen flakes from your trunks to coat their nests.

these shifting viewpoints and scales, the poems assume various forms: anaphoric verse, poulter’s measure, a seasonal “quartina,” a shaped poem. Everywhere Shoptaw attends to

But I know from down here the dome of your limbs, drooping broadly out from under their over-shadowers,

the musical contours and momentums of his phrases, lines, sentences and stanzas.

then curling sunward.

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meltdown, animal abuse) without ever giving up either pleasure or hope. Throughout, he practices what he calls a poetics of impurity. Wary of absolutes (apocalyptic finality, unshakable optimism, utter despair), he makes the best of things in the messy world of the relative, the partial, the gradual, and the mixed.

John Shoptaw grew up in the drained Mississippi River floodplain of “Swampeast” Missouri. He was educated at Southeast Missouri State College, the University of Missouri at Columbia, and Harvard University. He currently teaches in the UC Berkeley English Department.

He is the author of On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery’s Poetry, the libretto for Eric Sawyer’s opera Our American Cousin (Boston Modern Orchestra Project), and a number of essays on poetry and poetics, including “Why Ecopoetry?” (Poetry). His poems have appeared in Arion, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and Poetry. His first poetry collection, Times Beach (2015), won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in Poetry.

Photography by Rebecca Shoptaw

Praise for Near-Earth Object What you hold in your hands is a book, but a poem is first and foremost a song, just like the songs of birds, crickets, frogs, and whales. The impulse to sing comes from the impulse to live, and it’s catching. I encourage you to return to these poems multiple times and to read them aloud — to yourself, to your friends, maybe even to the birds. If your experience is anything like mine, you’ll find shelter in them from shifting weather systems of wonder, sorrow, gratitude, and anger.

Jenny Odell, from the Foreword A stirring ecopoetic collection that moves readers to protect the beauty of the natural world.

Kirkus Reviews Shoptaw’s deeper imperative, though — spiritual, aesthetic, cultural — is to speak on behalf of a bruised ecosystem, enriching but mightily imperiled.

David Baker For those of us who still hold out hope for our imperiled planet, these poems offer a riveting testimony of devotion … Near-Earth Object reveals what loving our planet really looks like, and what stirring music such love can make.

Danielle Chapman

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In this bold follow-up to her celebrated debut collection, Ecologia, Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen pushes her once prayerful voice into a full-throated war cry. Choke offers a daring fusion of experimental poetry and a fictional scientific study, creating a disorienting and mesmerizing exploration of identity, desire, and the relentless scrutiny faced by trans people.

Tonnessen’s verse pulses with raw emotion and linguistic innovation, defying conventional approaches to evoke a visceral, bodily response. Her poems — flowing water and shattering glass, alike — create a kaleidoscopic lens, through which she examines body, memory, and transformation with unflinching honesty and disarming tenderness.

Interspersed throughout are clinical “research reports” — Tonnessen’s own In this bold follow-up to her celebrated debut collection, Ecologia, biting satire of objectification and medicalization. These fictional documents serve Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen pushes her once prayerful voice into a full-throated cry. Choke offers a daring fusion experimental as a war stark counterpoint toofthe deeply personal poetry, highlighting the disconnect poetry and a fictional scientific study, creating a disorienting and between private experiences and public observations. mesmerizing exploration of identity, desire, and the relentless scrutiny faced by trans people.

Choke is more than a collection of poems; it offers an immersive journey into Tonnessen’s verse pulses with raw emotion and linguistic the complexities of existing a world that is simultaneously fascinated by and innovation, defying conventional approaches to evoke in a visceral, bodilyhostile response. Her — flowing water and shattering glass, topoems trans bodies and experiences.

Tonnessen’s unmistakable voice, honed in alike — create a kaleidoscopic lens, through which she examines Ecologia and now with refined tohonesty a razor’s edge, cements her place as one of the most body, memory, and transformation unflinching and disarming tenderness. vital and innovative poets of her generation.

Interspersed throughout are clinical “research reports” Prepare to be challenged, moved, and utterly transformed by this groundbreaking work that defies easy categorization and demands the readerly courage to be experienced.

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S ophia Anfinn Tonnessen is the author of Ecologia (2021), which earned a coveted Kirkus starred review and was named to the publication’s 2022 list of best poetry collections.

Her poems have been finalists for a number of prestigious prizes and have appeared in notable anthologies, including The Experiment Will Not Be Bound and New York’s Best Emerging Poets. A graduate of Columbia University, she presently studies Slavic Literature at the University of Michigan.

Praise for Choke “These poems are an unflinching act of protest, fighting tooth-and-nail for a humanity that history has denied. As they excavate the depths of trans experience, they claw at its oppositions: both obsessed with corporality and in protest of its limitations, weighted by history’s violence yet incited by its flames. These poems summon shadow-worlds of possibility and ask us to imagine a reality where queer intimacy is unquestioned and tenderness has no cost. Each page brings language to its knees, demanding that poetry withstand the weight of love, rage, and history.”

Caroline Harper New, author of A History of Half-Birds

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the October 12, 2021 publication of

Ecologia by Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen “gorgeous & invigorating” Peter Campion

Ecologia Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen There is no other world at all.

And no one left to stop the song from growing.

It’s been wintered all this time, in the ground,

buried in deep sorrow,

stretching back to some Norwegian kings saddened on the throne by time, whose tears grew women from the ground.

Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned degrees in Creative Writing and Russian Literature.

She presently studies Slavic Literature at the University of Michigan, and lives with hundreds of books and one neglected houseplant. Her work has appeared in Columbia Review, Poet Lore and the anthology New York’s Best Emerging Poets.

Photograph by the author

Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen’s debut collection, noteworthy for its experimental forms, long poems, and intentional repetitions, explores the intersections of gender, identity, and memory across time. Tonnessen is transgender, and her work captures the intense undeniability of an emerging self searching for a new ecology, both biological and political. The collection, shaped by serious and complex subjects, also features Carol Baskin from Tiger King, jokes about porn, and truly terrible puns, by design. Ecologia is profoundly intimate, yet not fragile. These are poems of courage, strength and faith in the self, no matter the form it might take. The poems soar in songs of celebration and protest, within a form that can best be described as the trans-lyric. Bodies, texts, memories, flowers all transform throughout the work, which brings a mystery and wonder to the collection.

Praise for Ecologia With passion and precision, ardor and humor, Whitmanian exuberance and Dickinsonian canniness, Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen’s Ecologia springs up from the “wounded place” that is also “holy ground.”

Peter Campion, Poet and critic, and author of One Summer Evening at the Falls and Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry, among other collections Ecologia is truly a study of the home, equally comfortable exploring the room of the body as it is exploring the room of the mind, though the speaker resides in uncomfortable liminality.

David Tomas Martinez, Poet and author of Hustle and Post Traumatic Hood Disorder With earnestness and urgency, Ecologia chronicles a transformation, a translation of energy and spirit within the force and fragility of the physical body. The poems process this energy with the momentum of the natural world — a storm surge, a dazed sparrow, a shadow passing over long grasses. Tonnessen does not spare us the brutality of rebirth but allows relief in detailing the humor, the eroticism, and the ordinary, delicate beauty of this life.

Carey McHugh, Poet and author of American Gramophone

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An Abundance of Caution by George Witte “a polyphonic symphony … a collection for the ages” Anton Yakovlev

An Abundance of Caution George Witte

Distinguished by expert attention to image and phrase, line and sentence, rhythm and tone, George Witte’s An Abundance of Caution proves much more than a showcase of virtuoso technique. Witte’s formal skill lends voice and body to the crucial work of finding grace in a time marked by environmental crisis, global pandemic, and personal loss. His poems gain their depth and dimension from

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attentiveness to the lives of others, the details of the natural world, and the often-bewildering ways we live now. In lines both formal and free, these poems answer uncertainty with clarity, imagination, and compassion. An Abundance of Caution is George Witte’s fourth collection of poems.

George Witte’s three previous collections are The Apparitioners, Deniability, and Does She Have a Name? His poems have been published in a range of journals and in several anthologies, including The Best American Poetry. He received the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine and a fellowship in poetry from the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State. The editor in chief of St. Martin’s Press and a New Jersey native, he lives with his family in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Praise for An Abundance of Caution An Abundance of Caution is a polyphonic symphony … This is a collection for the ages.

Anton Yakovlev Witte’s poems find their way in, taking up residence in the mind and heart.

David Yezzi These poems remind us that … we can still enjoy mysterious moments of grace.

Henry Hart Witte surprises and startles, so that “we might learn astonishment / again.”

Ernest Hilbert Visionary is what I would call the quality that enables these poems to know realities that exceed comprehension ...

H. L. Hix Each poem in this book is to be savored for its deft skillfulness, and almost every phrase has surprises that require mental adjustments. It is a pleasure, a challenge, and a reward to immerse oneself in these highly imaginative poems …

Anis Shivani

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the October 10, 2023 publication of

Holler by Danielle Chapman “A beautiful memoir … as devastating as American history itself.”

Ilya Kaminsky

Holler Danielle Chapman A few months after my father drowned, I found myself in Fairfield, Tennessee. One minute, I was watching the Okinawan sky pearl to a weird, phosphorescent yellow as my babysitter seized me and tried to shield my eyes. The next, I was sitting in the lap of my grandfather, General Leonard Fielding Chapman, Jr., in his ancestral home, a broken-down tavern built in 1790, where it had been forbidden to move the furniture since the Confederacy fell. I woke into American history as if into a second childhood, and with the foreboding that one day it would be mine to own.

A tour de force of prose style, Holler is poet Danielle Chapman’s moving and provocative portrait of her Southern, military childhood — and an unflinching reckoning with what such an inheritance means now. A crucial book for anyone with a racial conscience in today’s divided America, Holler is one woman’s account of “the miraculous catastrophe” of being human in an inhumane world, and proof that it’s possible to fully face who we are while searching for forgiveness.

Holler begins with Chapman’s father’s death, in a scuba diving accident in Okinawa, which she witnessed at age three. Brought back to the States by her father’s father, the former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Chapman soon finds herself in the family’s ancestral farmhouse in Tennessee — a tavern built in 1790 and later an antebellum farm. There, Chapman encounters the pungent atmospheres of her Confederate forebears, and a living cast of Southern eccentrics and WWII warhorses, forcing her to confront America’s racism and its wars. She enters her Gen X adolescence on fire with liberal outrage, but bewildered by “what to do about it.” It’s only as an adult, returning to her memories after decades working as a poet and a professor, that Chapman is able to fully see the stories that made her — turning up the depth of their sins, their sufferings, and their grace.

Chapman’s second collection of poetry, Boxed Juice, is forthcoming in 2024.

Danielle Chapman is the author of two collections of poems, Delinquent Palaces (Northwestern University Press, 2015) and Boxed Juice, which will be released from Unbound Edition Press in 2024.

She teaches Shakespeare and creative writing at Yale University and lives in Hamden, CT, with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their daughters, Eliza and Fiona.

Praise for Holler

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Danielle Chapman sees — and lets us see — both the beauty and the horror of her family legacy in this sad, haunting, and, above all, unblinking memoir.

Anne Fadiman

Holler traces out the strands of self, place and history that bind us to any past we claim or disclaim …

Marilynne Robinson … a magical and rare species of a book Major Jackson With blazing lyric intensity … Chapman’s story builds to a conclusion of mythic power …

An astonishment. A lesson in being human.

Rosanna Warren A beautiful memoir … as devastating as American history itself … Few can write prose as musical and precise … Holler is a stunning book.

Ilya Kaminsky Chapman’s complex and sensitive approach offers a brave and insightful path forward as we confront the past.

Philip Klay

Chapman’s is a Southern story, American with a bitter and by-now familiar tint of blood racialism. [She] has broken into the past without prejudice. This is new.

Fanny Howe

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the October 12, 2021 publication of

My Love Is a Beast: Confessions by Alexander Cheves “A rare memoir … provocative and poetic.

It’s a must-read.”

Diane Anderson-Minshall

“Savor every word of this literary bacchanal.”

Race Bannon

My Love Is a Beast: Confessions Alexander Cheves My idea of masculinity was born watching boys in my class and on my varsity football team. But more than them, it was the hunters, men who kept their crossbows in the beds of their pickup trucks, men who smelled of dried mud and sweat and diesel. I was masculine because of them — because I loved them and was raised by them, and because I was enamored with them and have been all my life. I know what the insides of their trucks smell like, what their necks smell like, what their John Deere hats smell like. I have wanted them since before I knew what wanting was.

lexander Cheves, one A of America’s leading sex writers, is best known for his work as a contributing editor at The Advocate and his widely read “Sexy Beast” column. He is currently a columnist for Out Magazine and also runs the popular Love, Beastly advice blog, notable for its frank, unflinching answers to questions about Queer sex. His work has also appeared in VICE, Them, and other magazines. He is a recipient of a 2021 Excellence in Journalism award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Cheves is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design. alexcheves.com Photograph by Jason Holland | Styling by Jill Gregory

How does the devout son of evangelical Christians, growing up dedicated to mission work in Africa, become one of America’s leading sex columnists and a self-avowed slut committed to kink as his new religion? Across his debut book, My Love Is a Beast: Confessions, Alexander Cheves details his path from piousness to faithlessness, and his awakening to the saving power of hedonism. He tells intimate stories of what he sees as the sacred grace of pleasure as he embraces his life as a sex writer, worker, and activist. In stories richly lyrical, boldly erotic, and fearlessly honest, Cheves takes readers on a tour through Savannah, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. Along the way, he explores the darker corners of Queer culture and his own life, highlighting experiences most will have never considered. His rise to national popularity among LGBTQ+ writers gets balanced by his own struggles with and recovery from substance use — and his public embrace of kink and fetish as a belief system, way of life, and identity. In the end, Cheves writes with complete, even shocking, transparency and authenticity in the service of shattering sexual shame. Graphic and at times controversial, this book is sure to become a watershed moment among erotic memoirs.

Praise for My Love Is a Beast: Confessions A much needed and influential voice, Cheves shocks while also liberating and healing ... This book cements him as an important author.

Dr. Chris Donaghue, Host of Loveline and author of Rebel Love A rare memoir ... provocative and poetic. I loved every uncomfortable minute ... it’s a must-read.

Diane Anderson-Minshall, CEO and Editorial Director, Pride Media and author of Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders and four novels.

Savor every word of this literary bacchanal. I predict it will catapult to the top of Queer book offerings.

Race Bannon, Author and Community Leader Cheves tells his story of early gay life as it should be told: terrifying, daring, angry, and so very fragile.

Christopher Harrity, The Advocate This book is a poignant rebellion against the constant pathologizing of all things Queer.

Amariah Love, MS, NCC, LPC

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Announcing the October 11, 2022 publication of

Blue Movie by Stephan Ferris “A grim thriller … harrowing, heartbreaking, unsparing.”

Blue Movie Stephan Ferris Alexander Cheves

Blue Movie is a horror show come to life. It is one written and cast from the darkest corners of the Internet. In it, readers will witness the brutal unmaking of a human, the terrifying collapse of hope, and the drug-fueled spiral leading

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to disaster. A sadistic Nazi, a dungeon death, and an arrest for murder are just a few of the shocking moments in this collection of 77 scenes from the life of a sexual outlaw. And, of course, there are surprises around every

The new drugs — these meds — give me vivid, disturbing dreams. My baseline is vivid and disturbing. I am vivid and disturbing. All great horror movies get inspiration from nightmares. I do not see Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger. I dream I am using. The meds — these new drugs — cause mood swings, disorienting me and amplifying depression and anxiety. Doctors say they will make me a little crazy. I am a little crazy.

This is killing me.

corner, including a naked, wandering, and blood-covered zombie on the sidewalks of Brooklyn. Stephan Ferris, an activist attorney also known as gay adult star Blue Bailey, stares down the devil — himself — and gets his hellish existence refocused on recovery and serving his community. But are the monsters gone? Has the terror ended? We are left knowing only that everything could shatter into shards in one white cloud of smoke.

Stephan Ferris is an accomplished Queer legal scholar and activist attorney. His most recent work has been published in Harvard’s LGBTQ Policy Journal. He is part of an emerging generation of openly Queer and sexually progressive activist attorneys who see the law as an opportunity to make social, civic, and cultural change. He advances his views and work to a wide range of audiences through published scholarly articles and speaking engagements related to sexual health, activism, and the law.

Photograph by Mike Ruiz

Praise for Blue Movie Blue Movie is harrowing, heartbreaking, unsparing, and will tell others like us they are not alone.

Alexander Cheves, Author of the bestseller, My Love Is a Beast: Confessions, and columnist for Out Magazine This book is a rare one. In fact, it is raw in every way … and will not disappoint.

Truly riveting.

Race Bannon, Author and community leader … this haunting tale will go viral … Ferris reminds us that humans will do desperate, comical, and even dangerous things to find community.

Amp Somers, Sex educator and co-host Watts the Safeword Stephan Ferris throws us into the fire in his brutally honest and unapologetic true story of hedonistic self-destruction and great personal triumph.

Sister Roma, Award-winning drag queen activist and entertainer

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Sodomy Gods by David Lauterstein “a magical book that works its spells in musical silence.”

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David Lauterstein is among the most influential forces in queer culture, celebrated as an unapologetic champion for sex-positivity since co-founding the iconic Nasty Pig fashion brand in 1994. As its CEO, he has been honored for his trailblazing entrepreneurship, his philanthropic efforts supporting homeless queer youth, and by the White House for his decades of public health advocacy. A formally trained poet and house music producer, Lauterstein resides in New York City with his husband and Nasty Pig co-founder, Frederick Kearney. Sodomy Gods is his first book.

Photograph by Frederick Kearney

Raw, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, Sodomy Gods is the coming-of-age story of David Lauterstein, a young gay man finding his way in the dizzying world of 1990s New York City.

From coming out amidst the devastation of the AIDS crisis, to falling in love and launching the iconic queer fashion brand Nasty Pig, David’s journey is one of self-discovery, resilience, and the revolutionary power of queer identity and community. His path takes readers across various subcultures, through moments of activist rage, and into today’s White House. The stories he shares comprise a time capsule of daunting challenges and unexpected triumphs.

Both a searing cultural commentary and a tender love story, Sodomy Gods pulses with the energy of the club scene, sparkles with David’s signature wit, and inspires with the message that one’s truth, no matter how uncomfortable or transgressive, is always worth fighting for. Poignant, erotic, and brimming with hard-won wisdom, David’s story announces a bold new voice in queer storytelling.

Praise for Sodomy Gods “Sodomy Gods gave me so much insight ... It’s a powerful story. Sexy, authentic, and real as hell, it’s a must-read for 2024.”

Billy Porter, Grammy, Emmy, and 2X Tony Award Winner “David has always been a storyteller... a visionary. [Sodomy Gods shows] what it took to get here.”

Kevin Aviance, legendary queen and nightlife personality “David’s raw and often hilarious memoir is a uniquely American account ... It’s a must-read for aspiring businesspigs everywhere.”

Josh Barro, National journalist, commentator and podcast host “I was not prepared for how moved I would feel reading this book ... a rich, emotional ride from start to finish ... poetic, vivacious, audacious. It’s a tale for the ages that will stay with you.”

Brad Carpenter, Emmy-nominated producer “Lauterstein writes about nothing more or less than ‘the poetry of the universe,’ in his words ... This book is a time capsule of lost New York. Passion ignites every page.

Alexander Cheves, Bestselling author of My Love Is a Beast: Confessions

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the March 12, 2024 publication of

The Bomb Cloud by Tyler Mills A shimmering memoir defined equally by its lyrical prose and profound historical implications, The Bomb Cloud untangles the intersecting strands of information running through a family mystery shaped by national secrets. From craggy cliffs in New Mexico to the haunting White Sands Missile Range, poet Tyler Mills meditates on the journeys that curiosity and research demand. Mills wonders about the nature of memory and writing itself, which surface as subjects — and asks what it means to discover, create, and re-create narratives in a search for illusive clarity.

How can one navigate through gaps in the fence around forbidden knowledge and confront what seems to be the truth? Extending from the poems in Mills’ Hawk Parable, this memoir wrestles with her grandfather’s likely involvement in a top-secret bomb wing that trained in the New Mexico desert, taking the reader to the very edge of the unknowable. The Bomb Cloud offers a story through essays about ecological crisis, family intrigue, personal and collective trauma, borders and the American Southwest, and mothering and legacy. It also splits open what it means to grapple with a history, a past, a place, and a self through language.

The Bomb Cloud includes 10 pieces of original, multi-media art by the author exploring the questions posed by the book.

Tyler Mills (she/her) is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), Low Budget Movie (co-authored with Kendra DeColo, Diode Editions 2021), and The Bomb Cloud. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Praise for The Bomb Cloud Doggedly forensic, self-scouring, Tyler Mills works the evidence and asks the hardest questions. There is a palpable tremor at the heart of her account.

Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age Tyler Mills is a gorgeous, deft writer, and to read The Bomb Cloud is to be seduced by a beauty which belies its content, like the children who played in the snow-like fallout of an atomic bomb test in 1940s New Mexico.

Lynn Melnick, author of I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Truma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton A book of history, family, art, and legacy, The Bomb Cloud is as much about destruction and loss as it is about creation.

Chet’la Sebree, author of Field Study and Mistress

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Tyler Mills is a hauntingly powerful writer. Her new book, The Bomb Cloud, has levels of amazement that get richer the deeper you go. It’s gorgeous stuff that you won’t soon forget.

Luis Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway

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F O R I M M E D I AT E R E L E A S E In this wry memoir — filled with cutting commentary, searing insights, and heated eroticism — restauranteur and food writer Rebecca Orchant (Huffington Post, Saveur) takes readers behind the scenes of the personal and professional kitchens that have shaped her life and its hard-won lessons.

With Simmering: A Kitchen Memoir, Orchant revisits the places and people influencing her love of food and the role food plays in her love — for others and for herself. From childhood culinary intrigue in Albuquerque to a kitchen table marriage proposal in Brooklyn to a hearthside BDSM scene on Cape Cod, Orchant examines the full epicurean breadth of her life. She recalls first loves and lasting losses, favorite meals and failed friendships. And she unblinkingly looks at the complexities of her deeply meaningful polyamorous connections while also bravely rendering earlier sexual awakenings, betrayals, and assaults: as a curious child, a vulnerable teenager, and an adult pushing away a renowned celebrity chef.

Throughout, Orchant finds comfort and belonging in kitchens, the common spaces where so much comes together, often with joy, sometimes with pain, always with the spice of life.

Across Simmering: A Kitchen Memoir, she sprinkles in memorable dinner parties, visits to standout restaurants, shared cooking rituals, and a few reliable recipes. In the end, Rebecca Orchant proves that simmering itself is required to let the hardest moments of life blend together with the best ones to become something far richer than the raw ingredients one might have to work with.

Rebecca Orchant is the co-owner of Pop+Dutch, a sandwich shop and market in Provincetown, MA, where she has lived with her husband Sean since 2014. Formerly a food editor at The Huffington Post, Orchant also performs burlesque, serves on the board of The Provincetown Commons, and contributes to The Provincetown Independent. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, and earned a BFA in Dramatic Writing from The University of New Mexico. She was a national finalist for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play from The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Praise for Simmering: A Kitchen Memoir Orchant will make readers appreciate food, family, and friends a bit more, and portrays life in general as a messy, sad, joyous, funny, and annoying mixture. A nourishing and easily digestible chronicle.

Kirkus Reviews Rebecca Orchant is your bestie at a queer dinner party — an irreverent, bisexual, snickering pal who talks about ass while pouring the wine. Every chapter feels like an anecdote shared over a drink … The result is an ode to cooking, a joyful and carnal ritual.

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A and B and Also Nothing by Chris Campanioni “A rich and intimate personal narrative.”

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A and B and Also Nothing Chris Campanioni Second Edition

At the beach I like to let my vision drop and feel the drift as if the tide were really reaching my feet, my ankles and calves, and the long stretch of flesh that is my thighs. When I lie like this, propped up toward the sun, with the glow against the lids of my eyes, I can feel the other bodies on the sand, like me, closed and silent, as if our bodies were radiating above the dusted rocks and earth, as if our bodies’ silence became a legible language in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, at the end the very end of the line.

Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey.

His research connecting media studies with

How can we re-write American identity for today? In this daring second edition of his celebrated cross-genre A and B and Also Nothing, Chris Campanioni reads and recasts his own life through the works of Henry James and Gertrude Stein.

He does so with an amalgam of annotations, observations, aphorisms, and asides, dissolving the boundaries between journal and novel, autobiography and fiction.

Then, he goes further, imagining several other books inside this one, including an exploration of the ways in which migrant illegality has been fabricated and shaped — and how this informs a critical evaluation of technology’s role in capturing and containing bodies in life and text. It is the interplay of the real, the not real, and the not yet real that propels A and B and Also Nothing toward a fresh blueprint for American identity — all captured through a notebook poetics that centers copying, collection, and recollection as primary creative acts. A and B and Also Nothing — now with a new coda and photographs by the author — is a call and a response to the avant-garde, an attendance to the community of BIPOC writers who have often been overlooked despite their meaningful influence on American culture. In Campanioni’s fluid, lyrical sequences, the vital roles of migration, dislocation, and exile in America’s literary and intellectual genealogy get restored.

Praise for A and B and Also Nothing … a brilliant manifesto-aria on what it means to attend, to concentrate, to listen, to resist, and to reckon. Imaginatively jamming together James’s The American and Stein’s The Making of Americans, Campanioni reshuffles nationality, borders, and genealogy Wayne Koestenbaum, BOMB

studies of migration has

In this dense collection, readers will gaze upon a mind that wrestles with the absolutes

been awarded a Mellon

of meaning.

Foundation fellowship and the Calder Prize and his writing has received the International Latino Book

Ruben Quesada, The Harvard Review

Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Academy

… a writer without limits, as inexhaustibly experimental.

of American Poets College Prize. Find him in Brooklyn,

Miciah Hussey, CRUSHfanzine

or try chriscampanioni@gmail.com.

Besides being a nonfiction bestseller, A and B and Also Nothing is also a literary critique, an exploration of rhetoric, and a rich and intimate personal narrative.

Davon Loeb, Los Angeles Review of Books

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the September 19, 2023 publication of

Notes of an Aging Pervert by Janet W. Hardy “A meaningful, beautiful, and necessary book ...

I loved it.”

Margaret Cho

Notes of an Aging Pervert Janet W. Hardy

From the legendary co-author of The Ethical Slut comes this meditation on aging.

With the awareness and insights she has garnered through life as a kinky celebrant of alternative and extreme sexualities, Janet W. Hardy’s Notes of an Aging Pervert considers everything from wrinkles and hair loss to body modification and conscious dying – and how to fit into the changing human forms we end up becoming along the way.

This concise collection of spirited essays and joyful illustrations is often funny, occasionally sad, and sometimes mind-bending. Who among us can actually imagine an existence outside time, space, and the body? Assuredly a great read

I’d like to say that the appearance part of aging — the loose skin, the saggy muscles, the gradual merger of boobs and waistline — doesn’t bother me. But you wouldn’t believe me, and I wouldn’t believe me either. Few adults can live in our appearance-obsessed culture and not have occasional moments of mourning for what came before.

for anyone whose pathway diverges from the main road, Notes of an Aging Pervert is also a book for those who are aging – which is to say everyone. Any queeridentifying person, and a sizable number of straight ones, will find some rich, inspiring, and provocative ideas to ponder here, all shared in straightforward, accessible language that does away with the jargon often defining discussions of such complex subjects.

Janet W. Hardy is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut, which has sold more than 500,000 copies to date and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She founded Greenery Press, where she served as editor in chief for more than 25 years. Janet lives the life of a kinky poly queer genderbent geezer in Eugene, Oregon, with her equally kinky poly queer genderbent spouse.

Praise for Notes of an Aging Pervert A meaningful, beautiful, and necessary book … frank and profound.

I loved it.

Margaret Cho … an honest foray into territory most people fear… we are lucky to have it.

Alexander Cheves … a writer of iconic stature … Hardy bravely exposes the deep intimacies of her life … This book is superb, which is no surprise since it emanates from the mind of one of the queer community’s most interesting thinkers and writers.

Race Bannon

Photograph by Jenn Spain Photography

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the September 19, 2023 publication of

Adult Human Male by Oliver Radclyffe “This is not queer theory. This is my flesh and blood,” writes Oliver Radclyffe in this spirited polemic on trans identity. Presenting his careful logic with lyrical prose, Radclyffe disrupts — intentionally, pointedly, playfully — the current structure of popular debates on gender.

With Adult Human Male, he rejects the academic argot of theoretical constructs and, instead, recenters the trans body as fundamental to a humanist inquiry into identity. Radclyffe posits that the cis perspective — from which nearly all gender discussions begin — is anything but neutral and thus demands both interrogation and expansion so that trans identity is not viewed through a hostile lens.

Adult Human Male marks an important advance in how to understand, discuss, and respect the trans experience.

The only daughter of an upper-class English family, Oliver Radclyffe tried to follow the rules: marrying a suitable man, giving birth to four children, and moving to the Connecticut suburbs.

Then, he realized that he was not a heterosexual woman — nor actually a woman at all. Oliver is part of a new wave of transgender writers unafraid to examine the nuances of transition, gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class, and family history.

His work has appeared in The New York Times and Electric Literature.

Praise for Adult Human Male Oliver Radclyffe … has predicted a future in which gender is not just mutable, but trivial. I can’t wait to live in that world, and I love Oliver for forging the path.

Janet W. Hardy Adult Human Male is an excoriating response to … the “hostile cis perspective.” After [this book], we cannot be neutral. [Radclyffe] writes with deft prose and measured fury.

Alexander Cheves … a moment of literary calm amid the wild seas of our current political and cultural landscape.

Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the July 11, 2023 publication of

Entanglements by Leah Souffrant “… where yearning and reading intersect …”

Wayne Koestenbaum

Nothing less than a journey behind the scenes of her own creative process, Leah Souffrant’s Entanglements embraces the contingency,

Entanglements Leah Souffrant

incompletion, difficulty, and uncertainty of artistic practice. At once intellectually rigorous and winningly immediate, Souffrant’s genre-busting collection conveys the fundamental “ways we come to know and create the world we inhabit and experience, both as

This is no English garden. The branches go wild. Children passing by are warned of the thorns creeping over the gate over the narrow sidewalk. It looks spontaneous, exploding there as if by accident. It looks inevitable, too, that rose bush where there

experience and through experience.” Informed by her wide and deep knowledge of critical theory, aesthetics, and history – and by

needs a burst of color, wild and refined at once in this wild and refined spot. Of

the fierce and compassionate spirit of feminist dissent – Souffrant

course, a rose, of course, a sudden spot of beauty — it is. Blooming with its inevitable

includes the reader in her dynamic and emancipatory “poetics of

arrogance, its generosity, its surprising thorns.

non-delimiting.” Entanglements is Souffrant’s second book.

art,

Leah Souffrant makes poetry, essays, and criticism. She is the author of Plain Burned Things: A Poetics of the Unsayable. Her recent work can be found in Bone Bouquet, Interim: Poetry and Poetics, Jacket2, Poet Lore, Formes Poétique Contemporaines, Seisma Magazine’s Studio Lab Showcase, and Speak the Magazine. Souffrant has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Center for the Study of Women & Society. She teaches at New York University.

Photograph by Hyon Su Kwon

Praise for Entanglements … renews my faith in the poetics of bibliomancy … Souffrant, terse as Duras, shows us how to feel at home Wayne Koestenbaum Souffrant’s roving, probing mind, … and what it alights on, is sui generis.

Jenny Xie Entanglements will change how you think about reading, texts and bodily encounters with the world.

Tyler Mills Love, memory, meaning, nation, narrative — Souffrant … reminds us of how we are bound to the world and one another.

Abby Paige … vibrating incantations … with indulgent thoughtfulness and disarming intimacy.

Chris Campanioni

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the March 12, 2024 publication of

The Discarded by Colin Hamilton “Mesmerizing … moving … enchanting … ” Kirkus Reviews

The Discarded Colin Hamilton But sometimes there would be something else as well, a little glimmer of talent, of distinction, that might break through for a few pages before succumbing to the worst, or the most predictable, of writerly habits. And sometimes I really couldn’t tell why some of these had been banished while others had become book club favorites. Many, despite their age, looked virtually new, with a clear, crisp stand to

A dazzling array of metafictions, Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded focuses on the lonely work of a solitary librarian assigned to the discard room. This hidden basement space is piled high with books purged from the stacks above. Many have been damaged, defaced, or made irrelevant by time.

Others simply sat untouched for years before being thrown out to make room for glossy new arrivals.

From the heap of discards, the librarian salvages his own idiosyncratic collection: a detective novel in which a damsel-in-distress insists she’s been murdered; A Guide to Universal Grasping, the “Ulysses of technical manuals;” a biography of David Markson written in the fragmented style of his experimental novels; an anthology of anthro-reptilian eroticism; a children’s book memorializing winter for those raised in an overheated world; a book of essays, The Hell of Insects, by entomologists who’ve been spoken to by their subjects; and a history of book burning.

their spines, still glossy in their cellophane wraps, still eagerly awaiting a reader.

With Borgesian panache, The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. Hamilton’s nuanced collection asks a seemingly simple question: In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and what do we discard?

Colin Hamilton has helped create a library, a center for dance, affordable housing projects for artists, and a park.

He is the author of a poetry chapbook and a novel, The Thirteenth Month. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lives in St. Paul.

Praise for The Discarded

Mesmerizing ... moving ... enchanting ...

Kirkus Reviews

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the May 17, 2022 publication of Aimee Parkison

Suburban Death Project by Aimee Parkison “… master of the uncanny … ” Harold Jaffe

“… tales that echo like prophecy … ”

The twelve stories comprising Suburban Death Project sparkle with disturbing

Sarah Blackman

Suburban Death Project

Suburban Death Project Aimee Parkison

brilliance, revealing in full why Aimee Parkison is so widely celebrated for her innovative narratives and experimental fiction. Suburban Death Project breathes life into what is barely surviving: ill-fated families, frightening relationships, and dangerous loves. With a dark humor serving to make unimaginable traumas both tolerable and knowable, Parkison delves into marriage and mourning, lust and loss, and violence and its aftermath. She exposes the horrors of life in its

Sometimes at night, I venture into the yard to stand beside the decaying pontoon

bodily form and relieves them with a passionate wonder burning so brightly

boat. That’s how I first saw the neighborhood ambassador owl and realized the

it outshines age, death, and family secrets. In average American households,

owl was calling to me, letting itself be known as owls rarely do. I wanted to explain

families haunt each other while still alive as they recompose into dragonflies,

to the owl it was too late for me. I no longer went on trips to search for nests in

peach trees, squirrels, ducks, owls, shadows, tunnels, and zoos of endangered

caves, tree hollows, bridges, and buildings. Gone were my childhood visits to caves

species. Pinned to boards for study, peered at by voyeurs, videoed by

littered with droppings, pellets scattered amid golden-brown feathers.

neighbors, or vivisected for the greater good, each body in these riveting stories undergoes an unflinching examination.

Aimee Parkison is widely published and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including: the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize; the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review; the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction; a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Fellowship, and a William Randolph Hearst Creative Artists Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA/PhD program at Oklahoma State University.

Praise for Suburban Death Project Playful and effortlessly pleasurable ... powerfully human.

Curtis White, Essayist, experimental fiction writer, and author of 15 books ... scrapes the nerve and pierces the heart. Parkison detonates and mesmerizes.

Meg Tuite, Author of Meet My Haze ... compelling and memorable fictions that will...reawaken you to the strangeness of the familiar world ...

George Looney, Author of The Worst May Be Over and Ode to the Earth in Translation ... tales that echo like prophecy as they underline, again and again, the inescapably beautiful now.

Sarah Blackman, Author of Mother Box and Hex

Photograph by Abelardo Reyes Gurrola

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FO R I M M E DIA T E R E L E A SE Announcing the January 31, 2023 publication of

The Experiment Will Not Be Bound: An Experimental Anthology, Peter Campion, ed.

Liana Roux CA Conrad Adria Bernardi Lorraine Schein Angie Estes Tom Yuill Paulus Kapteyn John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco James Gallant Kevin McLellan Janna Knittel Millicent Borges Accardi Tom Daley Catherine Gass Mark Brazaitis John Rodzvilla Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees Mark Irwin Jacob Budenz Aimee Parkison Colin Hamilton Curtis VanDonkelaar Susan Kelly-DeWitt Lauren Camp Andrew Oram Shumon Jenkins Alexander Cheves Jesse Nathan D. Seth Horton Jay Hopler K. Farrell Dalrymple Alex Wells Shapiro Mimi Kawahara The Experiment Will Not Be Bound Kimberly Johnson Brenda Hillman Will Cordeiro Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen Natalie Jane Edson Trevor Ketner Rebecca Rolland Kathleen Hellen George Witte Peter Campion William Fargason Danielle Chapman Nels Hanson Maxwell Gontarek Patrick Davis Kevin Simmonds Norma Cole Robert Hass Maria Garcia Teutsch Raymond Luczak Kathryn Nuernberger Heikki Huotari Peter Markus Matthew Meduri Gerard Sarnat Nicole Robinson Wayne Koestenbaum William H. Gass Adam Berlin Brian L. Jacobs Evan Goldstein Daisy Bassen Brendan Connolly Steven Salmoni Mark Tardi Lucien Zell Chris Campanioni Joshua Weiner Matt Bearden Laurie Kolp Margarita Meklina

Peter Campion is the author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry; four collections of poems, Other People, The Lions, El Dorado, and One Summer Evening at the Falls; as well as several monographs and catalog essays on modern and contemporary visual art. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the writing program at the University of Minnesota and serves as Executive Editor for Unbound Edition Press.

Featuring more than 70 pathbreaking authors, The Experiment Will Not Be Bound highlights celebrated and new voices that, as editor Peter Campion says, share “a particular combination of openness and intention, curiosity and assertion.” Indeed, the authors included in this anthology “venture out onto the skinny branches of their own sensibilities,” in Campion’s words. This book, though, is not just an anthology of some inspired experimental writing but an experimental anthology in form. Being unbound — physically and philosophically — allows the pieces included here to live in any order, to find the fit that works best for any reader, to be read randomly, sequentially, or thematically. This experimental anthology allows the editor to be simply a catalyst and the reader to become the editor for others. How this anthology might be made, unmade, and remade is just part of the experiment at hand. With its contents reordered, this book, as it rests in its manuscript box, might never be recovered. It exists only now; it exists forever in countless combinations. It is a book and not a book at the same time.

With a foreword and extraordinary book photography by Catherine Gass, The Experiment Will Not Be Bound is, to a degree, an homage to William H. Gass and his bold, experimental vision for his masterpiece, The Tunnel. This anthology also is an homage to every writer who believes the experiment of writing, of books, of making and unmaking and remaking meaning, must continue, one line, one sentence, one page at a time. Reader beware! Prepare to dig a way through this seemingly random heap of shuffled pages and make this anthology the book you want it to be. Includes four original photographs across 426 pages in a black, linen manuscript box with a magnetic closure and shrink-wrapped.

Including Work From: Millicent Borges Accardi Daisy Bassen Adria Bernardi Lauren Camp Chris Campanioni Danielle Chapman Alexander Cheves Norma Cole Angie Estes William H. Gass Colin Hamilton Robert Hass

Kathleen Hellen Brenda Hillman Jay Hopler Mark Irwin Brian L. Jacobs Kimberly Johnson Susan Kelly-DeWitt Trevor Ketner Wayne Koestenbaum Raymond Luczak Margarita Meklina Jesse Nathan

Nicole Robinson Aimee Parkison John Rodzvilla Gerard Sarnat Alex Wells Shapiro Maria Garcia Teutsch Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen Joshua Weiner George Witte ... and many more.

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F O R I M M E D I AT E R E L E A S E

KINK IS KINK IS

In this groundbreaking anthology, kinky people from around the world reveal in intimate detail their true stories of embracing the non-traditional practices that have informed or defined their identities, sexualities, relationships, connections, and communities. Filled with first-person narratives and stunning photographs, Kink Is captures the universal presence of kink across cultures, private lives, and public events. In these stories — as vulnerably honest as they are bravely bold — real people share what M A R G A R E T C HO motivates and animates their desires to experience human-to-human connection in novel ways, most often in the pursuit of increased emotional freedom, physical autonomy, individual power, and mindaltering joy. Featured here are activists, rebels, and professionals alike: Readers will meet a teacher, a technology guru, a priest, a political prisoner, a therapist, an astrophysicist, and a grandmother, among many others across all walks of life. These people come to Kink Is from everywhere, whether living their authentic lives in big cities, tidy subdivisions, or rural outposts.

In the end, Kink Is uncovers how common life on the sexual frontier actually is, making this book surprisingly relatable — even for people who think they are not kinky.

In this groundbreaking anthology, kinky people from around the world reveal in intimate detail their true stories of embracing the non-traditional practices that have informed or defined their identities, sexualities, relationships, connections, and communities. Filled with first-person narratives and stunning photographs, Kink Is captures the universal presence of kink across cultures, private lives, and public events. In these stories — as vulnerably honest as they are bravely bold — real people share what motivates and animates their desires to experience human-to-human connection in novel ways, most often in the pursuit of increased emotional freedom, physical autonomy, individual power, and mind-altering joy. Featured here are activists, rebels, and professionals alike: Readers will meet a teacher, a technology guru, a priest, a political prisoner, a therapist, an astrophysicist, and a grandmother, among many others across all walks of life. These people come to Kink Is from everywhere, whether living their authentic lives in big cities, tidy subdivisions, or rural outposts.

In the end, Kink Is uncovers how common life on the sexual frontier actually is, making this book surprisingly relatable — even for people who think they are not kinky.

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Includes more than 65 photos.

Kink Is is the debut book from a multimedia project

Praise for Kink Is

guided by a collective of community activists, editors, filmmakers, and a sex therapist. They come together from across the U.S. and Europe to help people tell their true stories about kink in real life, aiming to remove shame and stigma. A documentary film series is under development. The authors, collectors, curators, editors, and makers include Race Bannon, Patrick Davis, Jörg Fockele, Silke Niggemeier, Adam Ouderkirk, and Beatrice Stonebanks.

I love the people in this book because they have found their way to the special place they inhabit and can take others there with their stories.

Margaret Cho, from the Foreword

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S U B S C R I B E TO R EVEL A T R EVEL -L ITER A R Y .COM Revel Featuring the best in new poetry, fiction, literary essays, criticism, and art, Revel is available through fine independent booksellers, online book retailers, and directly from our publisher by subscription.

Revel’s editor in chief is the acclaimed poet and critic Peter Campion.

The journal is published each winter and summer by Unbound Edition Press.

The journal has featured the following authors and artists, among many others: David Baker; Charles Baxter; Cal Bedient; David Biespiel; Stephanie Burt; Chris Campanioni; Danielle Chapman; Jennifer Clarvoe; Andrea Cohen; Lucy Corin; Kwame Dawes; Erica Dawson; W.S. Di Piero; Tishani Doshi; Charles Douthat; Angie Estes; Forrest Gander; William H. Gass; Eleanor Goodman; Linda Gregerson; Langdon Hammer; Terrance Hayes; Brenda Hillman; Mark Irwin; Mitchell Jacobs; Dimiter Kenarov; Wayne Koestenbaum; Hailey Leithauser; Amit Majmudar; Randall Mann; Shane McCrae; Tyler Mills; Ange Mlinko; Jesse Nathan; Jenny Odell; Aimee Parkison; Jed Perl; D.A. Powell; Hugh Raffles; Deborah Rosenthal; Marian Roth; Kay Ryan; C.T. Salazar; Austin Segrest; Natalie Shapero; Alan Shapiro; John Shoptaw; Tom Sleigh; Willard Spiegelman; A.E. Stallings; Tess Taylor; Alan Thomas; Susan Unterberg; Corey Van Landingham; Rosanna Warren; Joy Williams; Christian Wiman; George Witte

Peter Campion is the author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry; four collections of poems, Other People, The Lions, El Dorado, and One Summer Evening at the Falls; as well as several monographs and catalog essays on modern and contemporary visual art. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the writing program at the University of Minnesota. Campion serves as executive editor of Unbound Edition Press. He also serves as the editor in chief of Revel, the literary journal published by Unbound Edition Press.

Praise for Revel Hurrah! Hooray! Huzzah! An exuberant and surefooted editorial vision has ushered something new, marvelous, and immediately enriching into our reading lives. And Revel is beautiful, too.

Alice Quinn What a terrific magazine. It is a balm, wide-ranging in its reach, forward-facing in its vista. Revel is as good as it comes!

David Baker

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2025 Fancyboy Walker Brown | Memoir | June 24, 2025 Tranny Muse Taylor Portela | Cross-Genre | June 24, 2025 Burning Money W.S. Di Piero | Poetry | August 26, 2025 Inside the Box W.S. Di Piero | Essays | August 26, 2025 Cadence of Vanishing Alice Jones | Memoir | September 23, 2025 Chronic Transience J. Allyn Rosser | Poetry | September 23, 2025 Lethal Conversations Aimee Parkison | Fiction | October 14, 2025 Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters David Wojahn | Essays | November 11, 2025

2026 A Ghost Has No Fantasies Christian Bancroft | Cross-Genre | January 27, 2026 The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025 Angie Estes | Poetry | March 17, 2026 Odd Hour Tomas Unger | Poetry | March 17, 2026 PIANO PIANO Jennifer Clarvoe | Poetry | April 14, 2026 Rosie Tom Sleigh | Memoir | April 14, 2026 Diver Alan Shapiro | Poetry | May 12, 2026 Infinite Sky Divided Howard Altmann | Poetry | May 12, 2026

2026 Everywhere We Are Don Bogen | Poetry | June 23, 2026 Lessons in Glass Eleanor Goodman | Poetry | June 23, 2026 Zanzibar: Selected Poems and Letters of Arthur Rimbaud Mark Irwin | Poetry | September 22, 2026 Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026 David Biespiel | Poetry | September 22, 2026 My (Lucky) Stars Willard Spiegelman | Essays | October 13, 2026 All the Question Marks John Skoyles | Fiction | October 13, 2026